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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

Council installs ‘pee paint’ to give Soho drinkers relieving themselves in public ‘a nasty surprise’

Drinkers in Soho who relieve themselves in public are being warned they will be hit with a “nasty surprise” thanks to Westminster City Council’s newly installed ‘pee paint’.

The paint, which is being sprayed onto walls in London’s famous night-life area, creates a water-repellent layer so that urine and other liquid bounces back onto anyone who decides to urinate in public, “leaving them soaked”, the council said.

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